Long speaker cable modification


Hi all,

I have a pair of 35ft name brand speaker cables with an inline network box and was wondering if cutting them to 8ft
would ruin them. The manufacture say's I need to send them back to them to be recalibrated. Was wondering if that was really necessary. they want 500.00 to do the work. Now that I am running mono's I no longer need the length. I can use them on another system if they were shorter.

thanks
mwilliams

Showing 1 response by stereo5

If the cable is either MIT or Transparent, then inside the box you will find a coil and a resistor or two. I cut a pair of 20 foot MIT Terminator 2 cables with a huge inline box attached and tried both shorter cables both with and without the network. I found NO difference.